Improvement in band-combs



E. BROW N.

Band-Combs.

No. 136,358. Patented March 4, 1873.

WITNESSES.

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ELIAS BROWN, OF WAPPINGEBS FALLS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT m BAND-COMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.1 36,358, dated March 4,1973.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS BROWN, of Wappingers Falls, county of Dutchessand State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Band-Combs,of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Object.

This invention consists in the combination, with a band-comb or such acomb as is used for holding the hair back from the forehead and on eachside of the brow, of an ornamental arch or rib surmountin g the portionof the comb that spans the brow or forehead of the wearer, whereby anyornaments desired may be displayed either on the front of said arch orerect upon it and facing toward an observer facing the wearer, as willappear from the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 represents afront View of a bandcomb with an ornamental arch placed over the centralportion of the band. Fig. 2 represents a difl'erent style of ornamentalarch from that shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows another style of arch, andwith part of the ornaments projecting forward. Fig. 4 is a sectionalview of Fig. 3 transversely through. the center of the band and arch andone of the ornaments.

The comb A is made in the usual style of plain band-combs; but upon theportion that spans the brow of the wearer is fastened inany convenientmanner an arch, as at B, which may be curved or shaped in any ornamentalpattern desired, as shown in the drawing, and by which a kind of crownis displayed upon the upper portion or convex surface of the band andover its central part. In addition to the ornaments formed in the architself others may be added, and, if desired, of a different material,and attached to the arch as seen at 0, Figs. 3 and 4. The method ofattaching said ornamental arch to the comb, as shown, is by rivets orpins, as shown at d d,- but other methods may be adopted, and otherstyles of ornamentation may also be used.

What I claim is The combination, with a band-comb, A, of an ornamentalarch or displayed crown, B, placed over the central portion of the bandand at right angles to the plane of said band, substantially asdescribed.

ELIAS BROWN.

Witnesses GEo. H. OoLLrNs, EUGENE N. ELIOT.

